International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)

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15th December 2023

Grotesque Women in the Media

The media exert a significant influence on body images. They confirm cultural ideals of beauty, disseminate idealised images and influence social norms and values. This article will focus on how the grotesque, repulsive, obscene body, of all things, can contribute to breaking down such powerful representational conventions and questioning normative ideas of femininity.

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25th April 2022

Racial violence of climate change 

In popular discourse, climate change is usually framed as an ‘environmental issue’ – a matter of ‘saving the planet’ or caring for nature. It is also about people, about justice, and about power. And when we pause to look at who is most affected, there is a clear racial dimension. Climate change can be understood as violence against people of colour, and seeing it in that way gives a new urgency to climate action.

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1st February 2022

Videoconferencing as a structural disadvantage

Video conferencing is shaping a large part of our working world and many positive developments are associated with the digital transformation it brings. However, numerous video conferences during the work week are more tiring for some employees than for others. The gender, age (...)

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All articles of this category

Release Date Authors Article
15.12.2023 Theresa Krampe Grotesque Women in the Media
25.04.2022 Jeremy Williams Understanding the racial violence of climate change
01.02.2022 Jenny Dietrich Videokonferenzen als strukturelle Benachteiligung
29.03.2021 Regina Ammicht Quinn Trümmerfrauen: Ein Nachtrag zum Weltfrauentag
07.05.2020 Wulf Loh, Laura Schelenz How the triage rules compound historical injustices against Black communities in the USA
05.05.2020 Solange Martínez Demarco Caring for others – looking to the Global South
2020 Sandra Dürr, Sheena Anderson Rassismus geht uns alle etwas an. Anti-Rassismus auch